Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer (AWS/Databricks)

Fairygodboss; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Software Engineer III for the Cloud Data Platform in the UK region, based in Glasgow. You will design, provision, and operate a modern cloud data platform built on AWS and Databricks, partnering with data engineers, security, and platform teams to deliver scalable, secure infrastructure.

The role emphasizes production readiness, governance, and collaboration to translate business needs into robust platform designs, with opportunities to advance cloud and data expertise

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
• Strong hands-on experience provisioning AWS infrastructure with Terraform, including modules, remote state, workspace/environment management, and change management workflows.
• Solid experience with core AWS services relevant to cloud data platforms, such as VPC, IAM, S3, EC2/ECS/EKS, RDS, KMS, CloudWatch, and load balancing.
• Working experience with Databricks, including platform administration and/or building and supporting production workloads.
• Proficiency in Python (preferred) or Java, with demonstrated ability to build automation, tooling, and platform integrations.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and CI/CD practices applied to infrastructure and platform delivery.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and data or platform pipelines.
• Hands-on experience using enterprise-authored AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment with demonstrated ability to critically evaluate and validate AI-generated outputs.
• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, including networking, security, compute, storage, and managed services, following infrastructure‑as‑code best practices.
• Develop and manage Databricks platform capabilities - including workspaces, clusters, policies, jobs, libraries, and integrations - to support production‑grade data workloads.
• Build automation around platform provisioning and operations using Python or Java, reducing manual effort and improving consistency across environments.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform deployments, including Terraform plan/apply workflows, policy checks, and automated testing.
• Implement security best practices across the platform, including least‑privilege access controls, secrets management, encryption, network segmentation, and auditability.
• Improve platform reliability through observability tooling - logging, metrics, and tracing - alongside alerting, incident response practices, and performance and cost optimization.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into scalable platform designs, and document standards, patterns, and runbooks for team‑wide use.
• Leverage enterprise‑authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity, while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards.
• Apply knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Data platforms

Collaboration

Automation

Troubleshooting

Education

Software engineering certification/training

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Databricks

Python

Java

Git

CI/CD

Observability tooling

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Software Engineer III for the Cloud Data Platform in the UK region, based in Glasgow. You will design, provision, and operate a modern cloud data platform built on AWS and Databricks, partnering with data engineers, security, and platform teams to deliver scalable, secure infrastructure.

The role emphasizes production readiness, governance, and collaboration to translate business needs into robust platform designs, with opportunities to advance cloud and data expertise